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Google AI Essentials

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Enhance your productivity across all roles and industries with essential AI skills. This course teaches you how to leverage AI to generate ideas and content, assist with research and organization, and speed up daily tasks like drafting email responses. Learn directly from Google AI experts how to use AI responsibly and earn a certificate upon completion.

Syllabus

  • Introduction to AI
    • Introduction to Google AI Essentials
    • Google AI Essentials overview
    • AI and the future of work
    • Learn from AI success stories
    • Anoop: Become AI-empowered
    • Practice quiz: Activity: Reflect on some current challenges
    • Explore how AI uses machine learning
    • Foundations of generative AI
    • A guide to AI and ML
    • Understand the capabilities and limitations of AI
    • Aleck: Make daily tasks easier with AI
    • Practice quiz: Activity: Use AI to create an email
    • Use AI as a collaborative tool
    • Wrap-up
    • Graded Quiz: Module 1 challenge
  • Maximize Productivity With AI Tools
    • Module 2 introduction: Maximize productivity with AI tools
    • Discover generative AI applications
    • Manvinder: Ways I use AI in my work
    • Understand how AI tools work
    • AI models and the training process
    • Transform your work with generative AI
    • Work with Gemini
    • Generative AI tools for workplace tasks
    • Practice quiz: Activity: Use generative AI to develop content and images for social media
    • Leverage the human-in-the-loop approach to AI
    • Kathy: Explore how people improve AI models
    • Determine if generative AI is right for the task
    • Use Gemini in Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, Meet, and Gmail
    • Use Gemini to help analyze business performance
    • Use Gemini to take your meeting notes
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Increase productivity with the help of Gemini for Google Workspace
    • Wrap-up
    • Graded Quiz: Module 2 challenge
  • Discover the Art of Prompting
    • Module 3 introduction: Discover the art of prompting
    • Understand large language models
    • Yufeng: Experiment with prompting
    • Write clear and specific prompts
    • Prompting best practices
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Write an effective prompt for Gemini
    • Leverage an LLM's capabilities at work
    • Prompts for different purposes
    • Improve AI output through iteration
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Iterate on prompts to find solutions
    • Discover few-shot prompting
    • Techniques for mastering complex tasks with AI
    • Rachna: Improve prompts through exploration
    • Wrap-up
    • Graded Quiz: Module 3 challenge
  • Use AI Responsibly
    • Module 4 introduction: Use AI responsibly
    • Understand bias in AI
    • Identify AI harms
    • Emilio: My path to working in responsible AI
    • Security and privacy risks of AI
    • Bias, drift, and knowledge cutoff
    • Shaun: Develop AI that works for everyone
    • Vint: Use AI for positive change
    • Checklist for using AI responsibly
    • Wrap-up
    • Graded Quiz: Module 4 challenge
  • Stay Ahead of the AI Curve
    • Module 5 introduction: Stay ahead of the AI curve
    • Stay up to date with AI
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Evaluate a new AI tool
    • Take inspiration from AI innovation
    • Greg: Keep exploring with AI
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Plan for future opportunities with AI
    • Take the next step with Google Prompting Essentials
    • Discover how AI can help at work
    • Use the 5-step prompt framework
    • AI IRL: Improve your prompts by adding context and persona
    • Wrap-up
    • Graded Quiz: Module 5 challenge
    • Google AI Essentials Conclusion
    • Access resources exclusively for Google AI Essentials graduates
    • Course resources and citation
  • Your Next Steps
    • Claim credential

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